MentalHealthCop
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Street Triage
One thing arising from the Home Secretary’s speech this week to the Police Federation conference was the idea of “street triage”. In short, this means a system whereby better health or mental health support is made quickly or immediately available to police officers who are often paired up with health professionals. Now there are various … Continue reading
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This is the first in the PARAMEDIC SERIES of blogs. To see all of the others, refer to the index: There was a recent suggestion by a Police and Crime Commissioner of physically situating police and fire services in the same buildings to facilitate greater inter-operability and overlap in the use of equipment / resources. … Continue reading
It has come to my attention in recent weeks that not everyone in the media game are aware of the Samaritans Guidelines on the reporting of suicide. Especially as new media gives rise to official organisations tweeting and blogging, there are new pitfalls. One excellent twitter account within my force area recently wanted, quite rightly, … Continue reading
Right!! – I recently started drafting a post, to be ready for next week – the one year anniversary of the blog. Given unexpected developments on the South Bank in London last night, I’m going to bring it forward slightly and combine it with a celebration of the blog’s first major, national recognition at last … Continue reading
ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS
- THE MARK HANSON DIGITAL MEDIA AWARD: On Monday night at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London, the "MentalHealthCop blog" became "Award Winning" in the 2012 Mind Media Awards - picking up the Mark Hanson Digital Media Award. I'm grateful to the judges at Mind for the honour as they included some eminent and well respected people with various connections to mental health issues across the professions, journalism and the arts. More importantly they included service users. I'm especially grateful for the honour of being awarded by Stephen Fry, Max Pemberton and especially Clare Francis who has already started to support me in raising the blog's profile yet further.
- Crisis support advice from mental health charity MIND.
- The Big White Wall is an NHS online support resource / forum.
- See the Essex Autonomy Project website for a wealth of resources & events.
